Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Guards are always a hard problem because the playing of the position is seldom spectacular. It would be almost as logical to put Black and Snow there as Nourse and Hogg; but the Princeton men have worked with Gennert for two years. Black would be a wonderful leader for the team, but his actual playing in the Harvard-Yale game was below big-team calibre. Fox, for a man of but one season's experience, comes close to being picked. Captain Dadmun, of Harvard, has not shown much all season...
...Gates and Haldridge, are beyond comparison. These positions were the weak points in the Harvard and Princeton lines. Gates has been alert in every game, practice winning the Harvard game for Yale; took a chance by picking up a loose ball instead of falling on it. McLean was a spectacular at times in the Yale-Princeton game, but, taking the season as whole, he has not shown the expect improvement over last year. McGraw inexperienced...
...hazardous to make a guess and be fair in picking two ends from the five: Harte, Coolidge, Comerford, Moseley and Highley. Harte and Moseley were given first choice because they were the more spectacular in the games. The other men were equal some respects, better in others, but alertness is one of the greatest assets end can have. Harte and Moseley saved the day for Harvard and Yale against Princeton; therefore they were put on the wings on an all-star team...
...second team outplayed the scrubs in a short scrimmage. A spectacular feature of this was the run of the length of the field for a touchdown by Waite. Van Nostrand also made a touchdown after a pretty...
...defence. None the less, the Haughton system has realized fully upon the material with which it had to work, and has developed a good strong team out of green players who will be more formidable against Yale than they were against the Tigers. The game was neither thrilling nor spectacular. Yet it was interesting because it was closely fought because, too, it contained a great deal of first-class football. This is not, however, to say that the contest was unmarked by poor-grade football. There was loose handling of the ball by both elevens. For the fumbling of kicks...